mandag den 12. december 2022

Poetry Monday :: Potted Plants

Poetry Monday is hosted by Diane, and she and Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings - who supplies us with many of the topics - are also writing wonderful, funny, thought-provoking, ingenious and honestly well written verse. Go and read them!
  Karen of Baking in a Tornado has joined us in this crazy pursuit, and promises us at least a poem a month!
  SpikesBestMate often publishes a nice verse in the comments.
  Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey who has been a faithful participant, was slowly returning to blogging after her husband's passing from this world. But then a humongous storm blew past and interrupted the flow of electricity and it seems Jenny never really got back after this. Let's hope there's nothing worse happening than a break, and let's continue to send warm thoughts, good energy, and lots of prayers her way. Let us hope that she will join Poetry Monday again, she is missed.

This time you'll have two shorties, a WordLit and a Haiku.



Potted plants growing
in my rooms. Green in winter
and brown in summer.

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Next Mondays topic is: Muffins.

New Blogger!

Today I deletes a bog post - It went into the trash-bin. Blogger has a trash-bin now, so accidentally deleted posts can be saved!

And I would have praised the spam filters for not catching any of you regular bloggers, but this morning, for the first time in over three weeks - I had to release Messymimi's comments from spam-limbo.

Also the feed-back gadget is renewed, but awry. I hope this is a work in progress.

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Dagens gode nyhed, Blogger har nu en papirkurv, hvor de indlæg, man uforvarende er kommet til at slette, ligger. Og de kan fiskes ud igen!:

Og så ville jeg have rost spamfilteret. For det er nu over tre uger siden at jeg har måttet redde nogle kommentarer ud. Men så i morges var hele tre as Messymimis kommentarer fanget igen, så rosen må vente.

Og så er der sket noget med feed-back funktionen. Den er blevet fornyet, men virker ikke helt endnu. Jeg håber, der sker noget på den front.

søndag den 11. december 2022

Sunday selections :: Let it SNOW!

Sidste uge - 🕯🕯- Last week

På indkøb - Vores rådhus. - 6. december - Shopping - Our Town hall!

Kvart i fire - på vej hjem med bussen - 6. december - A quarter to four - on my way home by bus


Det sneede! - 7. december - Let it snow!

Snefnuggene blev hængt op - 7. december - Someone hung the snow ornaments

og vi fik snevafler - 7. december - and we had snow waffles

Dem her kom indenfor. Der var is i sodavandene
- 7 december -
I took these inside, the soft drinks were partially frozen.


Torsdag var det fuldmåne og koldt. - 8. december - Thursday the full moon shone and it was cold.

Jeg foldede og flettede et par numre af Ugeposten til at stille planter på
- 8. december -
I folded and wove together some issues of the local paper. Making "trivets / mats" for the plants.

Yuzutræet kom også ind. Det skulle nok have været ind sammen med laurbærrene, jeg håber det overlever. Nu har de i hvert fald begge en avisflettet ting at stå på.
 - 8. december -
The yuzu plant has joined the laurel inside. I should probably have taken it inside earlier, and hope it survives. At least both now have a nice newspaper mats to stand on.

En dejlig solnedgang - 8. december - A most delicious sunset


Ved mit gamle Vejen hjem-træ, månen ser stadig fuld ud
- 9. december -
At the On my Way Home-tree. The moon still looks full.


Det sneede igen, og vores æbler var et tag selv bord
- 10. december -
Again snow. Our apples were a buffet for birds.

Solsorte - 10. december - Blackbirds

og sjaggere - 10. december - and fieldfares

Den er også flot bagfra - 10. december - It's also pretty from behind.

lørdag den 10. december 2022

Fredagsfrustration - Aldi 2

For et par uger siden undrede jeg mig over, hvor elendig "min" Aldi var blevet. Det var der åbenbart en årsag til - de var på vej ud.

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Some weeks ago I mused over the vaning quality of "my" Aldi. Obviously this was not without reason. They are pulling put of Denmark.



Translation of the text:
The German grocery chain Aldi withdraws from the Danish market.

Rema 1000 (A Norwegian grocery chain) takes over 114 of Aldi's 188 stores in Denmark. Rema 1000 and Aldi state this in a joint press release.

In TV 2 Lorry's (News agency) area, 29 stores are to be taken over. Aldi will close or sell the remaining stores in 2023.

The decision has been taken as part of a transformation strategy to focus on the other eight markets in Europe, where Aldi is experiencing strong growth and "sees a long-term potential", the press release reads.

"Aldi opened in Denmark in 1977 as the first discount grocery chain and served as a huge inspiration for our owner, Odd Reitan, when he opened the first REMA in Trondhjem in 1979.

"So it is with equal parts humility and pride that we get to carry on the torch, says Henrik Burkal, CEO of Rema 1000 Denmark."

From the list below you can see which Aldi stores in TV 2 Lorry's area will reopen as Rema 1000.


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Og ja, "min" Aldi er med på listen. Hvilket jeg syner er sært, for der er allerede en Rema 1000 centralt placeret i byen. Gad vide, hvad der sker?

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And yes, "my" Aldi is on the lists of stores to reopen as Rema 1000. I find this strange, as we already have one of these in the centre of town. I wonder, what will happen.

fredag den 9. december 2022

Fredagsfrustration :: Køreplansændringer -- Opdateret

English summary - more bus woes:
This coming Sunday, all bus and train scedules once again changes. And once again, just like last year, I cannot find all the new scedules online - UPDATE: Complainig helps, they ate online now 👍.

And once agan, just like  two years ago they only changed the bus to fit the trains in daytimes / workdays, not in the evenings or in the weekends. 

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På søndag får de flest busser, tog og S-tog nye køreplaner. Det betyder to ting. Dels skal jeg udskrive nye køreplaner for de busser, tog og S-tog, vi bruger. Dels at jeg er nødt til at tjekke for fejl i køreplanerne 😉 Dette sidste burde ikke være mit job, men det lader til at der ikke er nogen andre, der gør det. Læs selv videre.

Først: Nye papirkøreplaner.
- Lokalbanens hjemmeside er forbilledlig; klar længe i forvejen, overskuelig side, fine køreplaner.
- Busserne er i nogenlunde tid, også til at finde osv.
- Men S-togene ... I dag, fredag står der stadig:
Kan du se hvad der mangler at blive opdateret? S-togene, ja, nemlig, ja.
Sidste år var det præcis det samme, og de nye køreplaner blev først lagt op på hjemmesiden næsten 14 dage efter at de var trådt i kraft. 
OPDATERET: Åbenbart hjælper det at klage, for NU ligger de der 👍

Tjek for fejl:
Så er der vores busser til stationen og hjem igen. De skal passe med lokalbanen, Derfor skal de naturligvis også ændres  når lokalbanerne ændres.
Den ene er fin:

men den anden ...
Ja, det er fint, at de husker at tilpasse jer Lokalbanekøreplanen i dagtimerne. Det triste er bare, at den også er ændret i aftentimerne og i weekenderne. Det har de glemt ... lige som for to år siden.
Så fra og med på søndag vil vi kun have to minutter til at skifte til bus 360R, mod de sædvanlige (og oftest utilstrækkelige) tre minutter vi har haft indtil nu, og som 320R får lov at beholde.

Bemærk venligst, at begge busser er R-busser. Busselskabet skriver
selv:
R-busser er kendetegnet ved at have faste minuttal og sikre korrespondancer til øvrige konceptbusser samt andre vigtige bus- og togforbindelser. Det tilstræbes, at R-bussen har en så direkte linjeføring som muligt mellem større byer. Med halvtimedrift i dagtimerne og timedrift aften og weekend passer R-bussen godt til passagerernes behov, hvor mange har fleksible arbejdstider og benytter bussen til fritidsaktiviteter og kulturtilbud om aftenen eller i weekenden.
     Sikre korrespondancer (min fremhævning)? 2 minutter til at komme ud af toget, under sporene og hen til stoppestedet i den anden ende af stationen? Det er altså ikke ret sikkert.